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De85 on 12 November 2009
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binary solo said:

I'm all for raising the level of discourse on this site. Frankly I'm surprised that what is being talked about in this thread isn't already covered by general forum etiqutte. Trash talking (errr writiing) for inflammatory purposes should be a bannable offence regardless of the object of such talk (writing), be it person, business, game, gaming platform, body part, whatever.

What is important here isn't so much that mods should be banning people who are being unreasonably insulting. But that they need to be reasonly discerning in how they serve out the bans/warnings so that legitimate criticism, including reasonably hard hitting criticism isn't lumped in with trash-talking trolls.

If I say X company or Y game sucks a big weenie, and then proceed to justify that opinion with reasonable explanation I shouldn't be banned for using a forthright opening remark. If I just say the game/company have heads shaped like male genitalia and offer no decent argument to support my statement then I should be banned, or warned at the very least.

If that isn't already a general modding policy on this site then I support this thread. If this is already covered by general modding criteria then I don't think getting more specific in the rulez is necessary. If it seems the mods aren't applying the current site rules/policies well on the matters raised by this thread then that is an enforcement issue not a rules issue. I don't think you necessarily improve enforcement by making more rules.

Edit. Or to put it more briefly: I support the ideal / intent of this thread, but I'm not certain about the proposed action.

I support this post. 

I also support the right to make logically supported, forthright, possibly inflammatory opening statements, but in general do not make them myself because the presence of reason and logic is usually not enough to prevent people of a different mentality (read: fanboys) from ignoring the substance of the post and getting riled up by the opening remark, thus driving the thread off-topic.

I think actual enforcement of forum rules regarding post content (i.e. there has to be some) should suffice and that a new rule isn't really necessary, but I support the spirit of the OP.